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Act 1: From Linear Businesses to Aggregators and Back — Packy McCormick
And so the nature of modern technology is bringing a new set of shifts: In the management of businesses, from optimizing production processes to creating new combinations—new products, new functionalities. From rationality to sense-making; from commodity-based companies to skill-based companies; from the purchase of components to the formation of a
... See moreW. Brian Arthur • The Nature of Technology
An aggregator like Facebook or Airbnb brings all the relevant goods, services, or information that a consumer might seek into one place, and it gathers all the consumers there, too. Netflix is a one-stop shop for film and television. YouTube is a one-stop shop for user-generated video. Uber is a one-stop shop for car rides. These aggregators amass ... See more
Hamish McKenzie • The Age of the Sovereign Creator
A truly sustainable business model depends on being able to connect to your customers on your own terms, not an Aggregator’s.
stratechery.com • The Current Thing – Stratechery by Ben Thompson
"All parts of our economy were previously based on scarcity. In almost every case, that scarcity has disappeared. The way you win on the internet is to be the starting place where people go - Google, Facebook, these aggregators - or you're highly differentiated and you leverage the fact that you have zero distribution to reach anyone."
Ben Thompson • Platforms, Ecosystems, and Aggregators
Netflix and the Conservation of Attractive Profits - Stratechery by Ben Thompson
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